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Dollars  Want  Me 

The  New  Road  to  Opulence 

A  Soul  Culture  Lesson 

New  and  Enlarged  Edition 

BY 

HENRY  HARRISON  BROWN, 

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"Not  Hypnotism,  but  Suggestion."    "Man's  Greatest 

Discovery."  "Lord's  Prayer."  "Master's  Touch." 

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The  editor  of  a  delightful  San  Francisco 
magazine  called  "NOW"  has  written  a 
treatise  on  financial  success,  telling  peo- 
ple to  assert  "Dollars  want  me!"  every 
day,  and  to  live  in  the  thought  that  shin- 
ing ore  and  rustling  greenbacks  are  hur- 
rying  to  find  them. 

Any  other  desired  object  or  aim  may  be 
treated  in  the  same  mental  manner, 
while  we  also  use  practical  methods  to 
attain  it. 

All  the  opulence  of  God  belongs  to  his 
children.  All  happiness,  peace,  health 
and  usefulness  belongs  to  us. 
God  made  no  such  thing  as  ill  hick.  Alan 
made  it  by  false  conditions,  false  ideals, 
false  thoughts  and  false  deeds. 
— Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox,  in  S.  F.  Ex- 
aminer. 


THE  DOLLAR. 

''This  new  Law  of  Henry  Harrison 
Brown's  has  given  me  new  strength  and 
power  such  as  few  could  easily  realize." 
— O  Hashnu  Hara,  Editor  of  Wings 
of  Truth,  London,  Eng. 

"I  believe  the  idea  that  money  wants 
you  will  help  you  to  the  right  mental 
condition.  Be  a  pot  of  honey  and  let  it 
come." — Elizabeth  Towxe,  Editor  of 
Nautilus. 


Man's  the  elm,  and  Wealth  the  vine. 
Stanch  and  strong  the  tendrils  twine. 
Though  the  frail  ringlets  thee  deceive, 
None  from  its  stock  that  vine  can  reave. 

The  laws  of  this  world  are  written  out 
for  him  on  every  piece  of  money  in  his 
hand.     .     .     . 

Money  which  represents  the 
prose  of  life,  is,  in  its  effects  and  laws, 
as  beautiful  as  roses. 

Not  an  instant  would  a.  dime 
remain  a  dime.  In  one  it  had  become 
an  eagle  and  in  another  a  copper  cent. 
For  the  whole  value  of  the  dime  is  in 
knowing-    what    to    do     with    it.     .     .     . 

Monev  is  of  no  value.  It 
cannot  spend  itself.  All  depends  on  the 
skill  of  the  spender. 

He  needs  no  money  for  he 
is    value. 

— Emerson. 


PREFACE  TO  THE  FIRST  EDITION 

To  the  Reader. 

This  essay  upon  the  Dollar  appeared  in 
NOW  as  one  of  a  series  of  twelve  les- 
sons entitled,  "Success  and  how  I  won  it 
through  Affirmation."  It  attraeted  much 
attention  and  drew  out  from  its  readers 
many  letters.  This  appreciation  has  de- 
cided "NOW  Folk  to  reprint  it  in  form 
for  a  wider  circulation. 
This  well  conserve^  the  purpose  for 
which  it  was  written.  I  wish  to  awak- 
en my  fellows  to  a  sense  of  their  present 
possessions  and  help  them  to  a  realiza- 
tion of  the  Principle  which  controls  Life's 
expression  so  that,  living-  being  to  them 
"a  fine  art."  they  will  cease  to  look  for 
happiness  in  some  far-off  heaven,  but 
will  enter  into  the  enjoyment  of  the  one 
they  create  here  and  noi<.\ 
It  is  believed  that  this  little  monograph 
is  the  first  utterance  of  the  thought  that 
each  individual  has  the  ability  so  to  radi- 
ate his  mental  forces  that  he  can  cause 
the  Dollar  to  feci  him,  lore  him,  seek 
him   and   thus   draw,    at    will,    all    things 


needed  for  his  unfoldinent  from  the  Uni- 
versal Supply. 

It  will  help  you  to  rise  above  the  drudg- 
ery of  enforced  labor  and  enable  you  to 
enter  upon  the  manifold  expressions  of 
life  unth  the  joy  and  spontaneity  of  child- 
hood. This  is  the  thought  which  comes 
to  you  with  this,  my  Lesson  of  Success. 

Henry  Harrison  Brown. 

San  Francisco.  Cal.,  -May  i    1903. 


PREFACE  TO  THE  THIRTIETH 

EDITION. 

The  constant  and  increasing  demand  for 
this  modest  booklet  and  the  beneficent 
effect  which  it  has  had  on  thousands  of 
its  readers,  seem  to  justify  its  appear- 
ance in  a  new  and  enlarged  form.  May 
it  have  also  a  wider  influence  and  an 
enlarged  power  to  free  the  minds  of  its 
readers   from  the  tyranny  of  things. 

Henry  Harrison  Brown. 
589  Haight  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal., 
March,   191 7. 


SUPPLY 


"He  who  dares  assert  trie  I, 
May   calmly   wait 
While    hurrying    fate 
Meets   his    demands    with    sure   supply." 

— Helen   Wilmans. 


Harmony  There  is  neither  health  nor 
prosperity  without  harmony.  There  is 
no  peace,  no  health,  where  there  is  want, 
be  it  want  of  material  Supply,  wisdom 
Supply  or  love  Supply.  Love,  Truth 
and  Dollars — these  are  necessary  to  hu- 
man well-beine. 

Mind,  body  and  estate  must  be  cared 
for.  In  order  that  there  may  be  health, 
happiness  and  prosperity,  there  must  be 
Harmony.  This  harmony  is  found  in 
merely  giving  Self,  the  Soul,  its  way. 
Harmony  is  living  in  obedience  to  men- 
tal law.     It  is  found  in  right  thinking. 

Bane  of  Poverty  is  the  main  cause  of 
Poverty  the  unrest,  the  dis-ease  (the 
un-ease)  that  afflicts  mankind.  Remove 
]>overty  by  right  thinking  and  all  at- 
tendant evils  will  disappear.    This  right 

13 


14  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

thinking  means  that  there  shall  be  on 
the  part  of  the  individual  a  change  of 
attitude  toward   the  Dollar. 

Mental  The  prevalent  attitude  is  want 
Attitude  for  the  Dollar,  belief  that  Dol- 
lars are  power.  This  must  be  outgrown 
and  the  attitude  must  be  that  ALL 
POWER  IS  IN  MAN.  Dollars  are 
machines  with  power  delegated  to  them 
by  man.  They  are  useless  without  man. 
Dollars  want  me!  is  to  be  the  thought 
of  the  "Coming  man.''  A  few  so  think- 
now  and  have  obtained  mastery  of  Sup- 
ply. 

Demand  It  is    a  .legitimate    demand 

and  Supply  on  the  part  of  each  individ- 
ual that  he  have  enough. 
To  supply  human  needs  is  the  function 
of  the  universe.  All  is  for  man.  The 
sun  shines  for  him  ;  the  waters  run  for 
him ;  the  flowers  bloom  for  him ;  the 
grain  ripens  for  him;  and  the  earth 
teems  with  beauty  for  him.  All  would 
be  //.sr-less,  would  be  [>urposc-\ess,  but 
for  him.     When  he  ceases  to  be,  there  is 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  15 

no  use  for  the  universe  or  anything  in 

it.  Without  Man  these  are  virtually 
non-existent.  Man  alone  gives  a  mean- 
ing, a  use.  a  value,  a  purpose  to  the 
universe. 

There  is  enough  m  the  Universal  One 
from  which  all  things  materialize,  for 
each  one  to  have  enough  to  meet  all  de- 
sires without  robbing  any.  Infinite  Sup- 
ply is  all  about  us  and  yet  there  is  want. 
Whose  the  fault?  Not  of  The  One.  It 
is  in  ourselves.  We  have  not  known 
how  to  claim,  nor  have  we  claimed  our 
own. 

Law  of  The  Jaw  is  simple  and  it  is 
Supply  iai(i  down  by  the  greatest  po- 
litical economist  as  well  as  the  greatest 
Mental  Scientist  the  world  has  in  its 
historic  records.  He  was  not  a  theo- 
logian, neither  did  he  deal  with  ques- 
tions of  a  future  life,  as  many  seem  to 
think  ;  he  was  a  sociologist  and  a  social- 
ist. He  dealt  with  questions  of  ''the  life 
that  now  is."  His  name  was  Jesus.  He 
gave  the  Law  thus:  "Seek  first  the 
Kingdom  of  God  and  his  righteousness. 
and  all  things  shall  be  added  unto  you." 


16  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

Study  Analyze  the  Law  thus: — 
the  Law  "Kingdom  of  God?"  Where? 
"Within  you."  ''God  is  Spirit,"  he  said. 
"The  Kingdom  of  God'"  is  then  in  the 
Soul.  It  is  the  Ego  or  Soul  of  man. 
Know  thyself  as  Soul ;  know  thyself  as 
Spirit — this  is  the  Law.  Live  rightly,  is 
the  meaning  of  "his  righteousness."  Live 
in  accord  with  vour  sense  of  rigdit :  obey 
your  own  conscience.  Then  all  things 
shall  be  yours.  Things  of  whatever 
kind,  of  all  kinds,  are  manifestations  of 
the  One  Substance.  Things  are,  like 
yourself,  manifestations  of  the  One 
God.  Dollars  are  things.  Dollars  are 
manifestations  of  the  One  God. 

The  Law  Plain  directions,  these :  Live 
is  Simple  true  to  self;  live  spiritually; 
give  the  first  place  in  your  thought  to 
the  eternal,  from  which  things  come  and 
then  all  things  will  come  to  you  at  need. 
"First?"  Yes!  Not  things  first,  but 
that  mental  condition  which  controls 
things.  Not  Dollars  first,  but  that  men- 
tal attitude  which  attracts  Dollars. 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  17 

I  Trust  That  mental  condition  is  Faith 
Myself  in  Self  as  a  manifestation  of 
Omnipotence,  Faith  in  Self  as  a  mani- 
festation of  the  All-Good,  Faith  in  the 
Universe  as  Justice,  Faith  in  the  Uni- 
versal One  as  entirely  Good,  Faith  in 
the  Life  yon  are,  to  draw  its  necessary 
Supply  of  things  demanded  for  its  high- 
est expression.  Then  let  things  come. 
This  is  all,  but  it  is — God.  This  is  the 
"strait  gate."  Few  there  be  that  en- 
ter in,  but  all  may. 

Things  are  Few  place  things  "second." 
Second  Dollars,   position,    influence, 

show, — these,  in  common  thought,  come 
"first."  But  these  are  results  of  Power. 
First  become  one  writh  the  Power,  be- 
come the  Power,  and  these  desired 
things  will  come.  The  ordinary  process 
of  business,  the  customary  method  of 
thinking,  is  to  be  reversed.  Think  from 
inward   Power,  think   from   Being. 

Be  You  will  then  be  the  Master  and 

Master  things  will  take  their  right  place. 
Become  "one  with  God"  by  recognizing 


18  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

Him  as  King-  in  your  Soul.  Listen  to 
Him  in  the  edicts  of  your  Soul.  Say,  as 
you  thus  become  negative  to  the  Higher 
in  you,  ''Now,  God,  do  your  work  your 
way!  and  it  will  be  done  satisfactorily 
to  me."  No  one  can  fail  when  he  as- 
sumes this  attitude  of  Love  and  Trust. 
It  would  be  an  impotent  God,  and  there- 
fore no-God,  that  did  not  work  when 
these  conditions  are  made. 

Poverty:  Poverty  is  a  mental  condi- 
How  Cured  tion.  It  can  be  cured  only 
by  the  Affirmation  of  Power  to  cure : — 
/  am  part  of  the  One  and,  in  the  One, 
possess  all.  I  possess  all!  Affirm  this 
and  patiently  wait  for  the  manifestation. 
You  have  sown  the  thought-seed,  now, 
like  the  rancher,  wait  for  the  sprouting 
and  the  harvest  It  can  never  fail  you 
when,  like  him,  you  trust. 

Cure  of  Repeat  this  Affirmation,  no 
Poverty  matter  what  the  appearances. 
No  matter  if  hungry,  houseless  and 
alone,  affirm : — God  is  my  Supply.  My 
Supply   is  Infinite.    Dollars    want    me! 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  19 

Trust  implicitly  in  the  inviolable  Law 
of  Cause  and  Effect.  You  are  Cause ; 
Supply  is  the  Effect  that  must  follow 
your  Affirmation. 

"AS  YE  SOW  SO  SHALL 
YE  REAP" 

In  the  past,  you  have  sown  poverty- 
seeds,  and  are  now  reaping  the  crop. 
You  do  not  enjoy  this  harvest.  Sow, 
amid  these  results  of  previous  sowing, 
Plenty-seeds  and  Plenty  will  come.  Sup- 
ply is  yours  when  you  sow  Supply- 
seeds.  Sow,  no  matter  how  seemingly 
black  the  conditions.  The  seeds  have 
God-in-them  and  cannot  fail. 

Affirmations      My  SUPPLY     IS     INFINITE  ! 

for  Use  For  God    is    my    Supply. 

Supply  can  never  fail  ml.  Make  this 
vour  Affirmation  and  hold  it.  HOLD 
IT. 

Supply  The  J  aw  0f  Supply  is  as  sure 
is  Sure  as  gravity.  In  this  Affirmation, 
All  is  Mine!  Dollars  want  me  I  you  have 


20  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

repolarized     your     aura.       You      have 
changed  your  vibrations  and    you    will 
draw,  as  the  magnet  draws  the  needle, 
all  you  can  use.     Try  it!     Never  let  go 
of  your  trust  that  Dollars,   or  that   for 
which  they  stand,  will  come.    Thy  King- 
dom, O  Soul,  has  come  and  thy  will  is 
done  for  God  and  Soul  are  One. 
"All  is  mine;  'tis  but  by  asking: 
Ere  I  make  my  silent  plea 
Life  unlocks  her  richest  treasures 
For  my  waiting  eyes  to  see." 


OPULENCE 


You  conquer  fate  by  thought.  If  you  think 
the  fatal  thought  of  men  and  institutions,  you 
need  never  pull  the  trigger.  The  conse- 
quences   of    thinking    inevitably    follow. 

— Carlyle. 

The  Dollar  Personal  ideals,  of  necessity. 
s,do  must  differ,  yet,  since  money 

represents  objective  power,  its  consid- 
eration must  enter  as  a  factor  into  ev- 
ery ideal  of  success.  Money  represents 
Supply.  It  stands  in  our  thought,  for 
food,  clothing  and  shelter;  for  books, 
pictures  and  companionship;  for  enjoy- 
ment, unfoldment  and  expression. 
Material  Supply  is  a  necessity  of  Life. 
The  Dollar  is  the  concrete  representa- 
tive of  this  necessity.  But  the  Dollar 
also  means  opportunity  for  the  realiza- 
tion of  high  ideals. 

The  individual  must  be  free  and,  un- 
til the  necessities  of  life  are  assured,  he 
is  not  free. 

Personal  Thus  the  Dollar  stands  for 
Liberty      INDIVIDUAL  LIBERTY. 
Personal  liberty  finds  its  basis  in  pecu- 
niary    independence.       Financial     iride- 

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22  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

pendence  and  personal  liberty  bear  very 
largely  the  relation  of  cause  and  effect. 
We  can  almost  say  that  in  the  popular 
mind  the  Dollar  confers  liberty.  In 
Soul  Culture,  a  mental  attitude  of  su- 
periority to  the  Dollar  results  in  per- 
sonal liberty.  There  is  no  liberty  to 
him  who  feels  himself  limited  by  the 
want  of  the  Dollar. 

Debt  is  one  of  the  most  tyrannical  of 
masters.      Mackay   well   says : — 

"The  debtor  is  ever  a  shame  faced  dog 
With  his  creditor's  name   on  his  collar." 
There  can  be  no  liberty  to  him  who  feels 
the  slavery  of  debt. 

Ideals  of  Into  your  ideal  of  Success, 
Success  therefore,  there  must  be  firmly 
builded  this  ideal  of  pecuniary  inde- 
pendence. 

This  independence  does  not  lie  in  free- 
dom from  debt,  neither  does  it  lie  in 
large  bank  accounts  nor  the  possession 
of  property.  Monetary  success  and 
personal  liberty  do  not  go  hand  m  hand. 
Indeed  the  average  man  of  wealth  is  the 
veriest  slave,  enslaved  to  the  necessities 
that  his  monetary  possessions  involve, 
and  a  worse  slave  to  his  fears. 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  23 

what  is  Success  lies  in  the  mental 

Success  ATTITUDE  THAT  ARISES  FROM 
THAT  SENSE  OF  PERSONAL  POWER  WHICH 
MEETS  EVERY  CONDITION  WITHOUT  ANXI- 
ETY. 

That  cannot  be  called  success  which  re- 
sults in  ill  health  and  unhappiness,  un- 
rest or  fear.  Eliminate  these  from  your 
ideal  and  you  have,  as  a  necessary  con- 
comitant of  success,  financial  ease. 

The  New  ln  the  old  competitive 
Thought  thought  men  sought  business 
and  wanted  the  dollar.  Under  the  New 
Thought,  it  is :  "Seek  first  the  kingdom 
of  God  and  its  right  living  and  all 
things  necessary  to  my  happiness  will 
be  added  to  me."  The  Soul  has  only  to 
exercise  its  drawing  power.  When  the 
conscious  mind  lets  itself  be  led  or 
drawn,  it  will  be  drawn  to  what  it  de- 
sires. Desire  is  the  magnet.  Let  it 
have  its  way.  Trust  in  your  own  Love 
of  Truth  and  Love  of  Goodness  and 
never  question.  That  you  desire  it,  is 
enough.  That  you  desire  it,  is  evidence 
that  it  already  exists  for  you  on  the 
Soul-side.     Be  passive  to  the  desire  and 


.24  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

LET  it  manifest.  This  attitude  is  it- 
self Success. 

What  to  Think  positively:  Things 
Think  BELONG  TO   ME.   I   AM   ALREADY 

possessor.  They  will  come  to  me  at 
NEED.  Then  LET  them  come.  If  they 
do  not  readily  come,  hold  no  anxious 
thought  about  them.  Having  accepted 
Truth   that  all   is   mine  and   that     all 

DESIRED      CONDITIONS      OR     THINGS      WILL 

manifest, — keep  on  working  in  an  equa- 
ble, confident  frame  of  mind,  and  LET 
them  come.  Anxiety,  doubt,  mistrust 
show  that  you  have  not  claimed  them 
as  realities  but  have  held  them  as 
dreams  or  possibilities.  Until  you  hold 
them  as  realities,  they  cannot  come. 

The  Right  Change  your  attitude  to- 
Mental  ward  business.  Do  not  seek 
Attitude  it.  See  IT  mentally  al- 
ready yours  and  LET  it  come.  Attend 
yourself  to  details  as  they  come  to  the 
surface.  Consider  business  a  Principle 
that  will  run,  as  runs  a  mountain 
stream,  when  you  remove  your  con- 
scious will  from  it.     All  votir  concern  is 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  25 

to  be  ready  to  use  this  business  stream 
as  the  ranchman  uses  the  water  as  it 
comes  to  his  ditch. 

There  is  but  one  Power  and  that  is  the 
Universal,   the   Infinite   Power. 

Business  Business  is  a  manifestation  of 
is  Power  the  One  Power.  Use  Power 
as  does  the  telegrapher:  LET  it  come 
and  then  direct  it.  The  wisdom  for  the 
day  comes  with  the  day.  LET  it  come 
by  having  faith  in  Self.  Work  each 
moment  as  if  what  you  desire  were  here 
and  it  IS  here. 

Place  of  As  to  money,  regard  it  also  as 
Money  merely  the  power  that  keeps 
business  going.  Welcome  its  coming 
and  rejoice  at  its  going.  It  never  does 
its  work  until,  like  water  in  the  stream, 
it  has  passed  under  the  wheel.  The 
hoarded  Dollar  does  not  work  and  is  of 
no  real  value  to  you.  The  Dollar  you 
spend  is  the  only  one  you  really  have, 
for  by  the  experience  of  spending  it 
you  gain  a  growth,  an  enlargement,  that 
is  yours  forever. 


26  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

You  are  Money  lias  only  delegated 
Power  Power.  You  direct  its  ex- 
pression. Change  your  attitude  toward 
money.  It  is  not  "the  almighty  dollar." 
Almighty  Power  uses  the  dollar.  Say 
to  the  dollar,  "I  do  not  need  you.  You 
need  me.  You  are  of  no  use  until  my 
brain  and  hand  use  you.  You  wish  to 
be  used.  You  come  to  me  that  you  may 
be  used.  I  do  not  need  a  dollar.  Dol- 
lars need  me."  Assume  this  mental  at- 
titude and  see  what  a  change  it  makes 
for  you.  When  you  have  changed  your 
aura,  dollars  will  be  drawn.  You  need 
not  think  of  their  coming,  for  they  will 
come  to  you  through  the  opportunities 
which  this  new  mental  attitude  will  re- 
veal to  you.     Think  only  of  using  them. 

Mental  Attitude  Change  your  attitude 
towards  Dollars  towards  the  dollars  you 
have.  Tell  them  they  are  of  no  use  un- 
til they  are  expended.  As  you  see  them 
lying  about,  say  to  them: — "Idle  dol- 
lars, go  to  work.  Go  out  and  circulate. 
Each  one  of  you  go  and  pay  a  million 
in  wag'es  and  debts.  When  I  need  you, 
come  back  again.     You  are  useless  and 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  27 

have  no  value  until  you  go  to  work." 
Then  LET  them  go  to  work,  knowing 
that,  zvhen  you  send  this  thought  with 
thnn,  they  or  their  feliows  will  come 
back  to  you  to  be  set  at  work. 

Spend  the  jJefore  you  spend  a  dollar, 
Dollars  the  question    comes.     "Is    it 

right?"  Whether  you  have  a  single  dol- 
lar, or  whether  behind  the  one  you  think 
of  spending  are  a  million,  makes  no  dif- 
ference. If  it  is  right  to  spend  the  dol- 
lar in  the  proposed  way,  had  you  the 
million,  it  is  right  thus  to  spend  this,  the 
lone  one.  Therefore,  when  you  feel  it 
is  right  to  spend  a  dollar  for  any  pur- 
pose, spend  it  as  royally  as  if  you  were 
a  millionaire.  From  the  Inner  Life,  this 
message  was  given  to  me  years  ago: 
''Let  a  thought  of  use  stand  guard  over 
your  purse  and  then  spend  freely." 
Amend  this  by  affirming:  "A  thought 
of  the  righteousness  of  the  spending 
stands  guard  over  my  dollars  and  I  send 
them  forth  with  blessing." 


e>* 


Thoughts  do    These  dollars,     like    every 
the   Work        thought  of  good  you  send 


28  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

out,  will  return  to  bless.  You  do  busi- 
ness with  thoughts  only;  dollars  are  but 
materialized  thoughts.  Each  dollar  in 
any  man's  hand  represents  his  thought 
in  material  form.  Send  out  at  all  times 
with  your  dollars  the  thoughts  you  wish 
to  return  to  you,  for  what  you  sow  in 
your  dollars,  you  reap  in  dollars  that 
either  do,  or  do  not,  come  back  to  you. 
Put  the  thought  of  Success,  Happiness 
and  Health  into  every  dollar  that  pass- 
es out  and  it  will  return  so  laden. 

Poles  of  Having  acquired  the  proper 
Thought  mental  attitude,  there  is  some- 
thing necessary  for  you  to  do  to  draw 
the  Dollar.  Your  magnet  of  desire  must 
have  two  poles.  First,  you  must  have 
something-  which  the  world  needs  and 
is  willing  to  pay  for.  In  this  respect 
you  must  follow  the  law  of  supply  and 
demand.  You  must  honestly  feel  that 
you  will  give  the  Dollar's  worth  for  ev- 
ery Dollar  that  you  desire.  Secondly, 
you  must,  in  all  sincerity,  dedicate  ev- 
ery Dollar  that  comes  to  you  to  noble 
service.  You  can  then  feel  that  Dollars 
want  you;  that  through  them  you  can 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  29 

eive  what  vou  have  of  value  to  the 
world.  Feel  that  Dollars  wish  you  to 
use  them  for  the  accomplishment  of 
your  purpose  to  use  them  justly.  With 
this  ideal,  you  can  conscientiously  invite 
Dollars  and  they  will  come.  They  need 
your  heart,  brain  and  hand  that  they 
may  benefit  the  world. 

What  are  Dollars  are  manifestations  of 
Dollars?  the  One  Infinite  Substance 
as  you  are,  but,  unlike  you,  they  are 
not  Self-Conscious.  They  have  no  pow- 
er till  you  give  them  power.  Make  them 
feel  this  through  your  thought-vibra- 
tions as  you  feel  the  importance  of  your 
work.  They  will  then  come  to  you  to 
be  used.  They  will  not  come,  nor  can 
you  in  this  Thought  draw  them,  to  be 
hoarded.  Use,  Helpfulness  and  Happi- 
ness must  be  in  your  thought  of  Suc- 
cess. This  held  firmly,  perseveringly, 
as  your  Affirmation,  will  turn  the  cur- 
rent of  Dollars  your  way. 

What  to  Your  thought  should  be:  T 
Think  possess  that  which  the  world 
wants.      Dollars   want   me  to   use  them 


30  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

in  scattering  that  which  I  have  to  bless. 
Use  these  Affirmations  persistently: — 
Dollars  Love  me.  Dollars  Want 
me.  i  am  ready  to  use  dollars  and 
they  ereely  come  to  me  to  be  used. 
Make  no  limit  as  to  the  amount.  Claim 
abundance.  Claim  all  you  can  use 
eor  good,  all  that  is  needed  to  enable 
you  to  be  useful  and  happy.  Abundant 
Supply,  be  vour  demand. 


TIME  A  FACTOR 


In  all  your  Self-Culture,  you  are  to  re- 
member that  time  is  a  necessary  factor 
in  unfoldment.  It  is  not  a  measure  of 
duration.  This  mistake  of  measuring 
time  by  the  figures  on  a  dial,  will  never 
do  in  this  culture.  Time  is  to  be  meas- 
ured by  growth.  Some  may  grow  more 
while  the  hands  count  twenty-four  hours 
than  others  in  ten  times  that.  Take  no 
thought  of  time.  You  have  all  there  is. 
You  are  Spirit  (or  Mind,  if  you  prefer 
the  word)  and  have  all  eternity. 
Seeds  require  time  to  germinate,  grow, 
leaf,  bud,  bloom,  blossom  and  fruit. 
Each  thought,  each  change  in  your  ideal, 
is  a  seed.  It  will  follow  nature's  line 
of  evolution. 

You  will  require  time  as  you  change 
your  attitude !  A  period  will  be  required 
to  change  your  vibrations  so  that  the 
Dollar  will  feel  you  and  learn  that  it 
wants  you.  This  period  will  vary  ac- 
cording to  your  power  of  concentration 
and  your  fidelity  to  your  ideal  as 
couched  in  the  Affirmation :  Dollars 
want  me.     The   thought-field   is  first  to 

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32  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

be  cleared  of  the  weeds  of  the  old 
thought-sowing  and  the  seeds  of  the  new 
must  germinate  and  bear  fruit  in  the 
garden  of  Supply. 

Forget  pav  n0  attention  to  the  old 
the  Past  conditions.  Keep  at  your  Af- 
firmation, knowing  that  it  is  the  gate  to 
the  reservoir  and  every  irrigating  ditch 
will  fill  as  soon  as  water  can  come  down 
from  the  reservoir  to  it. 

i'\  Want!"  The  echo,  "I  want  dollars," 
must  become  still  before  the  real  sound 
of  Dollars  want  vie  can  vibrate  in  your 
aura. 

Know,  as  the  merchant  knows  that  he 
has  that  which  the  people  want,  that  you 
have  that  which  Dollars  want.  In  your 
thought,  in  your  hand,  in  your  life,  ad- 
vertise your  purpose  to  the  Dollar.  Tell 
it  that  it  wants  all  these ;  that  without 
you,  it  has  no  power;  that,  without  you, 
it  can  do  nothing.  Tell  it  that  all  that 
it  wants,  vou  have  ;  that  it  will  come  to 
you  that  it  may  accomplish  its  mission. 
Then  like  a  patient  merchant,  wait  for 
your  customers.     Dollars  will  soon  flock, 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  33 

as  do  customers  to  a  "bargain"  counter. 
The  "Want  column"  has  attracted  them. 
Use  here  only  the  same  common-sense, 
perseverance  and  patience  the  successful 
business  man  uses  and  Dollars  will  find 
their  wants  supplied  in  you,  and  you 
will   find   Supply. 


FUNDAMENTAL 
CONSIDERATIONS 


Consciousness  "God  hid  the  whole  world 
of   Want  in  thy  heart,"  says  Emer- 

son. This  fact  man  has  been  long  in 
perceiving.  From  cave-man  to  twentieth 
century  millionaire  the  propelling  force 
has  been  a  consciousness  of  lack.  "I 
want  food,"  said  primitive  man.  This 
drove  him  to  activity  and  led  to  his  un- 
foldment,  for  it  awakened  in  him  a  con- 
sciousness of  his  ability  to  supply  that 
want.  It  led  him  to  recognize  the  fact 
that  food  already  existed.  He  did  not, 
however,  reach  our  higher  viewpoint. 

Neither  has  the  twentieth  century  mil- 
lionaire reached  it,  for  he  still  shares 
that  primeval  ignorance  and  says,  "I 
want  Dollars."  This  little  book  is  a  call 
to  him  to  leave  that  primeval  attitude  and 
come  up  onto  this  higher  plane  where  he 
will  hear  the  World's  work  calling  to 
him — "I  want  von." 


34 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  35 

Necessity  the  Spurln  the  development 
to   Unfoldment  0f  man   necessity  has 

been  a  big  incentive.  Necessity  has 
driven  the  wheels  of  progress.  Animals 
also  feel  the  spur  of  necessity.  But  there 
is  in  man  a  plus — the  imagination,  a  psy- 
chic quality,  which  has  been  a  stronger 
factor  in  his  development  than  has  been 
animal  necessity.  This  power  of  imag- 
ination differentiates  him  from  the  ani- 
mal, lifts  him  above  the  animal  plane 
and  makes  him  man. 


The  It  was  imagination  that  led  cave- 
Ideal  man  to  paint  his  face  and  to 
carve  oictures  on  bones.  The  Ideal, 
''The  haunting  dream  of  the  Better," 
floating  before  him,  has  lured  him  on 
to  thought  and  action.  From  the  ani- 
mal matrix  the  power  of  the  Ideal  drew 
forth  the  human.  Necessity  drives ;  the 
Ideal  draws.  As  the  Ideal  develops  so 
does  its  power  to  draw  develop.  When 
Man  in  his  unfoldment  shall  have  left  the 
animal  entirely  behind,  he  will  know  no 
necessitv,  but  will  in  all  ways  live  from 
the  ideal. 


36  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

Then  there  will  be  neither  necessity  nor 
want.     Brutes  want;  Man  has. 


Human  The  Human  Soul  possesses 
Possibility  potentially  all  possible  pow- 
er. Like  heat  in  coal,  this  Power  in  man 
waits  for  expression.  Power  in  coal  or 
steam  waits  for  opportunity  for  expres- 
sion, but  Man  makes  his  opportunity. 


Power  As  fast  as  Man  learns  that 

Needs  Man  the  power  in  coal,  electric- 
ity or  radium  waits  for  him  to  use  it,  he 
puts  them  to  use,  and  learns  that  from 
all  eternity  they  have  waited  for  the 
Thought  necessary  to  direct  them  in 
work  for  him. 

All  Things  All  progress  is  but  a 
Await  Man's  change  of  mental  attitude 
Thought  toward  conditions  that  ex- 

ist. "A  weed  is  a  plant  man  does  not 
know  the  use  of,"  says  Emerson.  So 
the  condition,  whatever  it  be,  that  is  to- 
day untoward,  when  Man  knows  how 
to  use  it,  will  be  found  favorable.  There 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  37 

arc  millions  of  weeds  waiting  for  Alan 
to  learn  their  use.  Weeds  want  man. 
They  will  tell  their  secret  to  the  listen- 
ing ear.  "Weeds  as  well  as  roses  live 
for  onr  happiness." 

The  Ideal  Desire  for  something  new- 
Leads  to  led  man  to  find  coloring  mat- 
Discoveries  ter  in  what  were  useless 
weeds;  to  find  food  in  others  and  in  oth- 
ers clothing  and  building  material. 
Plants,  minerals  and  unknown  forces  are 
still  waiting  for  man  to  use  them.  Man 
is  ever  to  think :  "New  Forces  want 
me!" 

Love  of  Love-for-the-ideal  leads  to 
the  Ideal  desire.  Desire  leads  to  ac- 
tion, action  converts  untoward  condi- 
tions into  the  actual  ideal.  In  the  old 
thought  Man  was  controlled  by  "want." 
Hfe  wras  ignorant  of  his  place  and  pow- 
er in  Nature.  In  this  thought  of  want 
he  labored.  Ave,  even  in  his  religious 
life,  he  wrought  in  the  want  of  heaven. 
But  the  fact  is,  heaven  holds  out  rewards 
for  man,  because  it  wants  him. 


38  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

Want  is  Want  is  born  from  the  non- 
a  Lack  of  intelligence  of  the  brute 
Manhood  which  Man  has  not  yet  out- 
grown. The  individual,  conscious  of  his 
power,  does  not  want.  He  knows  that 
whatever  is  needed  for  his  health,  hap- 
piness and  unfoldment  already  is.  All 
he  needs  to  know  is  where  and  how  to 
get  it.  The  Psalmist  said  in  a  most 
matter-of-fact  way:  "The  Lord  is  my 
shepherd.  I  shall  not  want!"  Why? 
Because  the  Power  that  called  him  into 
Being  prepared  conditions  for  him  be- 
fore he  came.  Jesus  saw  the  same  truth 
in  the  realization  that  he  was  an  inte- 
gral portion  of  the  universe.  He  said: 
"I  and  my  Father  are  one."  "All  things 
that  the  Father  hath  are  mine!"  And 
he  had  learned  how  to  get  them.  He 
could  not  lack.  He  knew  his  power. 
"Even  the  wind  and  the  sea  obeyed 
him!" 


Nature's   THINGS      FOR      MAN      AND      NOT 

Demand  MAN  F0R  things!  Whoever 
realizes  this  Truth  cannot  want.  All 
NATURE  wants   him,  is  constantly  bid- 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  39 

cling  for  him,  and  even  lying  in  wait  for 
him. 

Opportunities  are  ever  present  for  man 
to  use.  Power  and  things  which  repre- 
sent power  are  at  all  times  present  for 
his  unfolding  into  consciousness  of  him- 
self as  Being;  as  a  child  of  Infinite  wis- 
dom. The  constant  enlargement  of  this 
consciousness  causes  a  constant  change 
of  mental  attitude,  so  that  man  learns 
to  use  opportunities  and  conditions  in- 
stead of  being  used  by  them. 

Worth  of  When  once  an  individual  has 
a  Man  reached  this  consciousness  of 
himself,  he  realizes  the  value  of  Emer- 
son's admonition : — "Let  a  man  know 
his  worth  and  keep  things  under  his  feet. 
Let  him  not  peep  or  steal,  or  skulk  up 
and  down  like  a  charity-boy,  a  bastard, 
or  an  interloper,  in  the  world  which  ex- 
ists for  him."  He  will  know  that  all  that 
is,  is  for  the  unfolding  into  conscious- 
ness of  the  embryo  god  which  he  is. 

Following  He  will  follow  in  love  his 
the   Ideal    Ideal,  and  there  will  constant- 


40  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

ly  open  fields  of  activity  that  want  him. 
There  will  constantly  be  more  power 
asking  him  to  harness  it.  In  radium  he 
is  finding  now  only  the  promise  of  fu- 
ture knowledge,  a  vaster  use.  Power  is 
an  atmosphere  that  cannot  he  limited  or 
lessened.  In  consciousness  of  himself 
as  Power-to-use-power,  man  will  not 
seek  to  possess  things,  but  will  learn  to 
use  things.  Thus  will  the  Law  be  ful- 
filled— "Seek  first  the  kingdom,  then  will 
things  be  added!"' 


No  Life  This  truth  perceived,  man  will 
Waste  not  waste  life  in  hoarding  and 
clinging  to  things.  Each  day  he  will 
use,  in  love,  everything  that  is  his  to  use 
and  thus  will  develop  his  power  to  draw 
other  things  that  want  him  to  use  them. 
He  will  gradually  unfold  the  ability  to 
see  and  improve  the  incessant  opportu- 
nities that  force  themselves  upon  him. 
He  will  come  to  know  that  nature  wants 
his  thought  and  love  to  help  her  express 
her  latent  forces,  which  are  merely  wait- 
ing for  the  hand  of  man  to  loose  for  his 
use.    Nothing  has  value  save  that  which 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  41 

adds  to  man's  health,  happiness  or  use- 
fulness. Said  James  Freeman  Clarke, 
'Nature  writes  upon  all  her  works  'Ser- 
vice to  Man!'  " 

Inventions  The  power  of  the  inventions 
of  Watt,  Stephenson,  Edison  and  Lang- 
ly  to  revolutionize  civilization  is  small 
compared  with  the  transforming  power 
flowing  through  the  mental  attitude  ex- 
pressed in  the  Thought:  "Things  want 
me!"  "Dollars  want  me!"  ''Nature  wants 
me."'     ''God  wants  me!" 

Power  Every  new  perception  of 
of  Truth.  Truth  causes  changes  in  every 
line  of  thought  and  endeavor.  Not  an 
avenue  of  human  expression  but  was 
changed  by  Copernicus,  and  by  Darwin, 
Wallace  and  Spencer.  The  Truth  that 
A  Tan  is  WANTED  will  work  a  greater 
advancement  in  spiritual  welfare  than 
these  perceptions  of  scientist  and  phil- 
osopher have  wrought  in  material  and 
intellectual  good. 


42  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

Universal  THE  PRINCIPLE  IS  UNI- 
Principle  VERSAL.  Man  must  entire- 
ly reverse  his  attitude  toward  Nature, 
himself,  and  things.  He  must  recognize 
that,  as  the  crowning  expression  of  In- 
finite Power,  he  is  to  accept  his  place  as 
the  ruler  and  he  is  to  exercise  dominion 
over  all  things.  He  must  affirm :  "The 
zcorld  exists  for  me.  It  is  for  my  use. 
It  lias  no  other  use  than  to  minister  to 
inc.  Without  me  there  is  no  purpose,  no 
ultimate  in  Nature." 

Social  There  can  never  be  a  happy 
Change  anc{  equitable  condition  in  so- 
ciety until  the  present  attitude  of  "want" 
is  changed.  Whenever  the  race,  shall  af- 
firm, 'Things  want  me!''  then  the  mil- 
lennium will  be  near.  Man  will  then 
see  that  he  is  infinite  in  his  possibilities ; 
that  time  and  things  are  simply  the 
means  by  which  he  comes  into  conscious- 
ness of  his  own  divinity  and  immortal- 
ity. That  change  comes  to  each  individ- 
ual when  he  learns  to  affirm  in  Truth : 
"I  possess !"  in  place  of,  as  he  now  says : 
"I  Want!";  ''Dollars  want  me!"  in  place 
of  "I  want  dollars!" 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  43 

Great   is  This  change    is    so    great 

This  Change  that  when  proposed  to  the 
average  man  he  no  more  sees  the  Prin- 
ciple and  its  import  than  would  the  boy 
by  Franklin's  side  have  understood  him, 
had  Franklin  said  that  the  lightning 
which  he  was  drawing  from  the  sky 
would  run  streetcars  and  drive  automo- 
biles and  aeroplanes.  ''Dollars  want 
me"  will  work  a  no  less  marvelous 
change  in  the  world's  social  life. 

Criticism  I  am  aware  that  the  princi- 
ples of  this  little  book  are  an  easy  mark 
for  the  humorous  or  satirical  pen  of  the 
superficial  critic.  Plain  as  my  point  of 
view  is,  the  blind  critic  can  easily  miss 
it.  And  the  point  of  view  is  all  import- 
ant. 

The  Position  j  affirm  the  infinite  possi- 
of  the  Book  bilities  of  the  human  soul. 
I  have  faith  in  man  as  power  to  over- 
come all  limitations  and  to  realize  that 
he  is  able,  through  expressing  his  divin- 
ity, to  have  dominion  over  all  nature. 
He  will  have  this  as   fast  as  he  learns 


44  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

his  power.  I  affirm  that  there  is  but 
One  Power,  One  Mind.  All  phenomena 
are  but  a  manifestation  of  that  One. 
The  Self-Conscious  manifestation  of  that 
Mind — Man — because  he  is  Self-Con- 
scious, has  power  to  command  obedience 
from  all  that  is  not  self-conscious,  to 
command  all  that  is  not  himself.  Money, 
being  a  part  of  All  and  also  being  a  cre- 
ation of  Human  Thought,  is  subject  to 
Human  will.  All  this  my  critic  may  not 
accept,  and  consequently  he  will  look 
from  the  Old  Thought  point  of  view. 
Having  no  Thought  in  common,  he  can- 
not agree  with  me. 

Work  and  Do  you  wish  to  know  the 
Practice  truth  of  these  principles? 
Practice  them  and  await  results.  The 
final  test  is  always  "By  their  fruits  ye 
shall  know  them."  Practice  is  neces- 
sary. No  ideal  can  be  reached  without 
great  effort.  Your  desire  must  be  ac- 
companied by  earnest  work.  Indolence 
will  never  draw.  The  magnet  works  or 
it  would  not  draw  the  needle.  Thought 
is  work.  Concentration  and  icill  and  ef- 
fort are  necessary. 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  45 

Plan  Accept     the      Principle     and 

and  Stick  then,  as  the  architect  plans 
and  concentrates  on  his  work  till  his 
house  rises  complete,  for  otherwise  it 
would  be  a  medley,  so  one  must  build 
an  ideal  of  opulence  and  stick  to  it,  no 
matter  what  comes,  until  he  actualizes 
his  Ideal  in  the  objective.  It  is  no  easy 
task  to  develop  the  faith  that  moves  dol- 
lars. But  it  is  easier  than  to  endure  the 
poverty.  Let  one  be  as  persistent  in 
thinking-  and  declaring  "7  am  rich!"  as 
he  has  been  in  declaring-  "I  am  poor"  : 
let  him  with  equal  persistency  say,  ''I 
have  dollars!"  as  he  has  been  savins:  "I 
want  dollars!"  I  will  promise  him  that 
he  will  grow  into  that  mental  attitude  of 
perception  that  will  see  and  take  advan- 
tage of  opportunities  to  earn  the  dollars 
that  lie  all  about  him  now  unperceived. 
No  man  can  do  his  best  under  the 
thought  of  poverty,  under  a  thought  of 
want.  Knowing  his  ability,  the  work- 
man does  his  best.  Under  fear,  doubt, 
mistrust  he  can  never  do  good  work. 
"The  poor  workman  quarrels  with  his 
tools !"  The  good  workman  knows  he 
has  the  power  and  uses  to  best  advan- 


46  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

tage  his  tools. 

It  is  always  the  mental  attitude  that  de- 
termines success.  Let  that  attitude  be : 
"Business  wants  me!" 


An  instance  A  gfentleman  in  mv  class 
of  Success  in  Boston  who  furnished 
a  noon  luncheon  to  hundreds  said:  "Mr. 
Brown,  I  don't  understand  how  dollars 
want  me!"  "Why  did  you  select  that 
location  for  your  business?"  I  asked. 
"Because  it  was  in  the  center  of  the  busi- 
ness district  and  there  was  opportunity 
for  me!"  he  answered.  "Surely,"  said 
.1.  "You  have  answered  my  question. 
You  went  there  because  business  called 
you.  Business  wanted  you.  You  said, 
'Men  want  dinners  and  I  go  to  furnish 
them.'  '  He  saw  the  point,  applied  it,  and 
thinking  thereafter,  ''Men  want  din- 
ners !"  drew  men  and  increased  his  busi- 
ness. We  radiate  a  mental  atmosphere 
that  is  sensed  and  is  potent.  He  who 
says,  "I  want  your  dollars!"  repels  you. 
lie  who  says,  "You  want  my  goods  and 
I  am  glad  to  serve  you!"  draws  busi- 
ness. 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  47 

Rockefeller  When  you  realize  the  power 
of  Mind  through  concentration  and  right 
thinking  you  will  see  that  the  great  finan- 
ciers each  unconsciously  applied  the  Law 
which  this  book  teaches.  I  have  this  in- 
stance from  some  "Reminiscences"  which 
Mr.  Rockefeller  has  published: — "As 
our  success  began  I  seldom  put  my  head 
upon  the  pillow  at  night  without  speak- 
ing a  few  words  to  myself  in  this  wise, 
'Now  a  little  success;  soon  you  will  fall 
down;  soon  you  will  be  overthrown.  Be- 
cause you  think  you  are  quite  a  mer- 
chant; look  out,  or  you  will  lose  your 
head — go  steady!'  These  intimate  con- 
versations with  myself  I  am  sure  had  a 
great  influence  in  my  life.  I  was  afraid 
I  could  not  stand  prosperity  and  I  tried 
to  teach  myself  not  to  get  puffed  up  with 
any  foolish  notions." 
Talk  to  Treat  yourself  as  teacher  and 
Yourself  pupil;  as  doctor  and  patient. 
'With  constraining  directness  make  your 
affirmations  to  yourself.  Only  thus  can 
you  open  up  the  sources  of  infinite  pow- 
er that  are  within  von.  This  talk  in  e  is 
best  done  in  formulas  positively  express- 
ing /  ami 


AFFIRMATIONS 

FOR  SUCCESS 


The  teachings  of  preceding  pages  have 
been  necessary  that  you,  my  reader,  may 
fully  understand  the  Principle  of  Affir- 
mation. Now  I  will  give  you  some 
examples  in  the  way  of  Affirmations 
that,  if  you  will  repeat  them  until 
it  becomes  a  habit  for  you  to  think  along 
their  lines  of  thought  as  automatically 
and  persistently  as  you  have  in  the  old 
lines,  will  so  completely  change  your 
life  expression  that  you  will,  in  com- 
parison with  your  past,  seem  like  a  new 
person. 

What  Avoid  negative  expression^. 
to  Avoid  Never  use  words  that  are  not 
in  line  with  your  desire.  Here  are  three 
imp  expressions  to  avoid: 

/  cannot  afford  it! 

It  is  common  when  one  desires  a  thing 
and  does  not  feel  that  he  can  expend  the 
cash  for  it  to  say:  "I  cannot  afford  it!" 
For  what  are  the  dollars  in  your  purse  ? 

48 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  49 

To  spend.  Can  yon  afford  to  spend 
them?  Is  it  not  that  for  which  you  have 
them?  You  do  not  mean  that  you  can- 
not afford.  This  thought  makes  you  the 
servant  of  the  dollar.  What  you  really 
mean  is :  "I  do  not  feel  that  this  thing 
is  the  one  I  can  best  buy  now.  I  pre- 
fer to  use  the  dollar  in  other  ways.'' 
This  is  the  proper  attitude  of  mind.  In 
it  you  continue  to  be  the  Master  and  the 
dollar  is  subject  to  your  decision. 
This  may  seem  like  a  very  little  thing. 
But  it  is  the  most  important  thought  you 
can  apply  in  your  career  for  success.  It 
is  "Dollars  want  me!"  thought,  and  not 
the  thought,  ."I  want  dollars  to  tell  me 
what  I  shall  do  with  them !" 
A  gentleman  once  said  to  me,  "I'd  like 
to  buy  some  of  your  books,  but  I  cannot 
afford  it !"  "Excuse  me,"  said  I.  "You 
smoke  ten-cent  cigars?''  "Certainly/' 
was  his  reply.  "At  least  five  a  day?"' 
"Sure,"  he  said.  "You  can  afford  them?" 
"I  do!"  "Then  you  will  pardon  me. 
You  should  have  said,  T  can  afford  to 
buy  some  books  if  I  decide,  but  I  prefer 
to  spend  the  dollar  for  cigars.'  This  is 
your  privilege.     Exercise  your  personal 


50  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

liberty  and  be  master  of  your  pocket- 
book  and  say,  T  spend  the  dollar  as  I 
desire !' 

/  Iicitc  spent  so  much! 

This  is  the  second  imp  expression.  Have 
you  spent  or  exchanged  that  which  rep- 
resented value  for  something-  of  value 
which  it  stood  for?  You  bought  a  suit 
of  clothes.  Twenty  dollars  exchanged 
for  clothes.  In  taking  an  account  of 
stock  von  only  change  twentv  dollars 
from  cash  account  to  assets.  Your  ac- 
count  balances   the   same. 


Investment  Another  way  to  look  at 
money  expended  is  as  an  investment. 
Fiftv  dollars  invested  in  mining  stock 
and  you  look  for  dividends.  So  invest  ev- 
ery dollar  that  passes  out  of  your  hands. 
It  is  an  investment  in  education,  in 
health,  in  experience.  Feel  thus  toward 
the  dollars,  as  they  go,  and  then  your 
mental  attitude  will  be  so  clear  that  you 
will  see  opportunities  for  other  invest- 
ments that  will  bring  sure  dividends. 
Regret,  sorrow,  fears,  remorse,  and  all 
such     attitudes     of     mind    so    cloud   the 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  51 

judgment  that  other  effects  similar  to 
those  regretted  will  follow. 
Happy,  peaceful,  contented,  trustful, 
self- respectful  mental  states  keep  the 
reason,  conscience  and  judgment  clear 
and  proper  investments  will  be  made  un- 
der them. 

Always  see  a  dividend  coming  in  from 
every  dollar  that  goes  from  your  purse. 
The  greatest  of  all  dividends  is  Experi- 
ence, for  it  is  ever  afterward  a  mental 
asset,  that  increases  the  value  of  every 
decision. 

I've,  lost  so  much ! 

This,  the  third  imp  expression,  is  akin 
to  the  spending  idea,  but  worse. 
Away  with  it.  The  lesson  learned  is 
worth  all  it  cost.  Nature  always  gives 
"measure  for  measure/'  So  much  ex- 
perience for  future  guidance  is  always 
adequate  recompense.  All  one  gets  out 
of  life  is  the  result  of  experience.  Ex- 
perience is  the  expression  of  life — the 
pressing  out  of  life  into  consciousne^-. 
All  our  present  consciousness  is  the  re- 
sult of  experience.  The  present  is  but 
adding,  through   experience,   to  the   sum 


52  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

total  of  our  consciousness.  So  is  it  true 
that  we  act  with  all  our  past,  and  think 
in  the  present.  For  this  reason,  no  one 
has  any  cause  to  regret,  or  repent,  or  be 
sorry  for  any  experience.  One  is  today, 
in  consciousness,  all  that  he  has  ex- 
pressed of  the  infinite  possibilities  of  the 
Soul.  Let  him  say:  "I  have  always  ex- 
pressed as  my  reason,  my  desire  and  my 
will  have  determined.  I  have  learned  by 
experience  what  expression  brings  hap- 
piness and  what  misery.  According  to 
my  power  to  choose,  to  decide  and  to 
persist  have  I  used  the  experience.  Be- 
cause of  my  use  of  dollars  I  learn  how 
to  use  them  if  I  am  wise.  If  I  do  not 
learn,  then  the  want  which  I  allow  my- 
self to  feel  for  the  dollar  will  be  the 
cause  of  more  suffering!" 
Once  one  has  mastered  that  want  by 
realizing  the  principles  set  down  in  this 
book  he  will  feel  no  sorrow  over  lost 
dollars,  for  he  will  know  that  the  dollar 
spent,  or  the  dollar  others  call  "lost,"  is 
his  as  experience  forever. 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  53 

FINANCIAL  FREEDOM 

Financial  freedom  is  the  real  desire 
which  actuates  men  in  their  labors  for 
the  dollar.  That  freedom  will  never 
come  as  long  as  one  puts  in  the  dollar 
any  power  to  add  to,  or  to  detract  from, 
his  happiness.  Until  he  realizes  that  it 
is  his  attitude  toward  the  use  of  the  dol- 
lar, that  will  bring  satisfaction,  there  will 
always  be  the  cry  of  "Want !" 

AFFIRMATIONS 

I  therefore  recommend  that  the  follow- 
ing affirmations  be  used  till  the  mental 
attitude  they  express  becomes  habitual : 


I. 

I  desire  a  deep  consciousness  of  financial 
freedom. 

I  desire  that  the  flow  of  prosperity  be- 
come equalized. 

I  desire  a  greater  consciousness  of  my 
pozver  to  attract  the  dollar. 
I  desire  a  constant  success  in  my  busi- 
ness. 


54  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

II. 

When  you  have  used  this  until  you  are 
conscious  of  a  definiteness  in  your  de- 
sire you  mav  use  the  following:: — 

/  have  a  deeper  consciousness  of  finan- 
cial freedom. 

I  am  financially  free.  "Dollars  want  me." 

The  Indwelling  Power  cares  for  my 
purse. 

I  have  zvhatever  I  desire. 

I  have  no  question  of  expenditure. 

What  I  feel  I  need,  that  I  purchase. 

I  can  afford  to  use  dollars  for  my  hap- 
piness. 

I  luwe  el ot lies,  food,  books,  entertain- 
ment and  whatever  I  need  for  health., 
happiness,  friendship,  and  service  to 
others. 

III. 

Mere  is  another  which  was  developed 
with  the  assistance  of  a  friend  for  my- 
self in  a  time  of  my  own  weakness: 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  55 

I    MUST   ALWAYS   SAY   TO    MYSEI-F — 

''I'm    financially  free." 

I  must  sec  to  it  that  the  two  men — the 

material  and  the  spiritual — that  I  am, 
shall  blend,  to  the  purpose  of  financial 
success. 

I  sec  myself  in  such  a  financial  con- 
dition that  the  money  is  always  there, 
— actually,  z'ii'idly,  there, — to  use,  free- 
ly and  in  fullness. 

I  always  have  a  pood  hank  account. 
/    actually   see    it. 

My  one  idea  of  the  Law  is  to  use,  use, 
USE. 

I  insist  most  rigidly  upon  using  my 
Law  most  persistently,  until  I  hafi'e  my 
full   demonstration. 

I  have  strength  of  character,  stamina, 
back-bone,  powerful  purpose  in  accom- 
plishing, 

I   demonstrate   that  I'll  have   my   liome, 
funds   for   business,   for   recreation,    and 
for  any  improvement  in  myself. 
I  affirm  : — 
Real  emancipation. 

Real  freedom,— to  make  the  very  best 
in  my  life. 


An  Editor's  Opinion 

O  Hashnu  Hara,  editor  of  Wings  of 
Truth,  London,  in  the  April,  1903,  num- 
ber of  that  journal  has  this  to  say  of 
''The  Law  of  Opulence" : — 
'The  February  issue  of  NOW  contained 
an  article  on  'Opulence.'  I've  read  a 
good  many  articles  on  opulence,  some 
have  impressed  me.  some  fell  flat — flat 
as  a  pancake — this  one  didn't.  First  of 
all,  it  placed  all  my  former  theories  in 
a  wrong  light ;  my  idea  was  to  say  T 
WANT.'  It  is  quite  true  that  when  I  did 
this  I  generally  got  what  I  wanted  soon- 
er or  later,  but  If.  H.  B.  says  that  you 
must  not  say,  /  want, — in  effect,  he  says 
you.  must  affirm,  'I  don't  want  dollars; 
dollars  want  me! 


"H.  H.  B.  "  \  very  little  consideration 
is  Right"  wiH  show  this  is  right;  but 
consideration  wasn't  enough  for  me — I 
put  it  to  the  test.  The  first  five  days, 
my  receipts  fell  almost  to  zero,  but  I 
was  determined  to  hang  on.  I  felt  it 
was  right,  that  the  drop  in  my  business 

56 


DOLLARS  WANT  ME  57 

was  due  to  the  re-adjustment  of  the  vi- 
brations, for  long  experience  has  taught 
me  that  you  cannot  turn  round  from  one 
method  of  thought  to  another  very  sud- 
denly without  disturbing  the  currents 
and  these  have  to  get  re-adjusted  to  the 
new  rate  of  vibration  before  you  can 
work  them.  The  sixth  day  my  patience 
was  amply  rewarded  ;  for  every  one  or- 
der I  had  been  in  the  habit  of  receiving, 
I  got  twenty  and  it  has  kept  up  ever 
since. 

The  "Now  I    never    weaken    my 

Honey-Pot  position  by  affirming  that  I 
want  anything.  I  say  it  wants  me,  and 
I  know  it  will  come.  It  is  not  any  use 
making  that  statement,  of  course,  if  you 
doubt  it.  You  must  back  up  your  state- 
ment with  faith  and  feel  it  is  already 
yours.  It  is  rather  on  the  principle  of 
the  honey-pot  and  the  swarm  of  sum- 
mer flies;  you  are  the  pot  of  honey — the 
dollars  are  the  flies, 

"Now  the  honey  doesn't  worry  about 
the  flies,  it  is  content  to  be  sweet,  to  give 
off  a  faint  sweet  smell  and  to  stick,  blit 
the    flies    do    want,    thev   come    from   all 


58  DOLLARS  WANT  ME 

quarters,  they  swarm  into  it,  sip  its 
sweetness,  and  buzz-zz-zz  all,  all  around. 
The  honey  is  a  power — irresistible  power 
so  far  as  flies  go — they  want,  it  is  a 
great  center  of  attraction. 
"Now  say  you  run  some  particular  line 
of  business — you  are  the  honey — in  the 
world  there  are  many  people  who  want 
what  you  have  to  give  them,  who  will 
gladly  pay  cash  for  it,  who  cannot  help 
being  attracted  to  your  honey,  as  the 
flies  might  be. 


Thought  "Your  thought  is  strong  and 
is  Power  potent  beyond  measure,  but. 
when  you  assume  the  'wanting'  attitude, 
although  you  do  most  certainly  attract, 
it  is  nothing  like  the  powerful  attraction 
formed  by  your  quiet,  confident  attitude 
of  absolute  conviction  that  the  thing 
wants  you.  The  attitude  of  desire  is 
strong,  but  the  attitude  of  certainty — 
of  possession — which  this  new  thought 
makes  possible  is  wonderful,  and  a  ver- 
itable tower  of  strength ;  it  has  made 
tilings  possible  to  me  that  were  quite 
out  of  the  question  before." 


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